Idiom
bang straw
Meaning
A farmer's servant, especially a thresher.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The bang straw worked in the barn all day.”
“In the old days, a bang straw spent the harvest season threshing grain by hand.”
“The historical novel describes the difficult life of a bang straw, who labored from dawn until dusk to process the wheat for the manor.”
Examples
simple
“The bang straw worked in the barn all day.”
contextual
“In the old days, a bang straw spent the harvest season threshing grain by hand.”
complex
“The historical novel describes the difficult life of a bang straw, who labored from dawn until dusk to process the wheat for the manor.”
Origin
From bang + straw.
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